Is this SSD Faster than My Current SSD?

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Alyus

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I have a Crucil M4 SSD from a few years back. The one that seems very popular is the Intel 730 Series SSDSC2BP240G4R5 2.5" 240GB SATA 6Gb/s MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD). I don't know how to read specs. I don't need any more than the current 128 GB SSD that I have but is the Intel 730 SSD significantly faster than my Crucial M4? It's so cheap now that I can just add another 240 GB for the heck of it.
 
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kira70591
The 730 series is a great drive, but if you want one of the fastest standard SSD drives out at the moment, you could get a Samsung 850 Evo. These drives go on sale quite often with a great price.

What matters the most is what interface you are running on. If you are running on the older Sata 3Gb interface then your drive will perform around half of what it would on a 6Gb interface from what I have experienced. Either way any SSD is going to be much faster than a standard HDD.

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-730-Series-240GB-vs-Crucial-M4-256GB/2031vs372

The 730 series looks like it will perform faster in certain areas but for general usage you would probably not see much difference.
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The 730 series is a great drive, but if you want one of the fastest standard SSD drives out at the moment, you could get a Samsung 850 Evo. These drives go on sale quite often with a great price.

What matters the most is what interface you are running on. If you are running on the older Sata 3Gb interface then your drive will perform around half of what it would on a 6Gb interface from what I have experienced. Either way any SSD is going to be much faster than a standard HDD.

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-730-Series-240GB-vs-Crucial-M4-256GB/2031vs372

The 730 series looks like it will perform faster in certain areas but for general usage you would probably not see much difference.
 
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geofelt

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Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
For that, the response times of current SSD's are remarkably similar. And quick. They will be 50X faster than a hard drive.
In sequential operations, they will be 2x faster than a hard drive, perhaps 3x if you have a sata3 interface.
Larger SSD's are preferable. They have more nand chips that can be accessed in parallel. Sort of an internal raid-0 if you will.
Also, a SSD will slow down as it approaches full. That is because it will have a harder time finding free nand blocks to do an update without a read/write operation.
Today, the fastest conventional ssd is the Samsung 850 PRO.
Tomorrow, the intel 750 pcie based ssd will be the fastest.
 
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quilciri

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Unless you have a specific use case in mind, no, the 730 is not significantly faster. If you just have an SSD for consumer use (games, browsing, mild productivity) then I'd only recommend a new SSD over the M4 if you need more space.

Cheers!
 
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